HealthExec June 28, 2024
The American Medical Association (AMA) said it will lobby for an indefinite extension of Medicare reimbursement for telemedicine services and fight the Dec. 31, 2024, sunset date when Medicare plans to cease reimbursement for these services.
Telemedicine was not reimbursed by Medicare prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. This significantly hampered wide-scale adoption of the technology that could enable physicians to see greater numbers of patient more efficiently than with less inconvenience to patients than office visits. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) rapidly changed its policy to cover telemedicine during the 2020 COVID-19 public health emergency in efforts to limit in person contact while still enabling patients access to providers. Overnight, the percentage of telehealth usage skyrocketed...
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